Director Resource Optimization Operations

This position is incentive eligible.

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Job Summary and Qualifications

Job Summary:

The Director Resource Optimization Operations is responsible for bringing deep operational, financial, and business-unit expertise to the PI Resource Optimization Operations. This role serves as the bridge between analytics and real-world execution by validating opportunities, assessing operational feasibility, identifying barriers, and translating insights into practical actions that can be adopted by corporate, division, facility, and shared services leaders.

The role partners with internal subject matter experts, corporate functions, field operators, Finance, HR, and Performance Improvement leaders to identify value creation opportunities across labor management, corporate overhead, productivity, fixed cost, spans and layers, requisition governance, and operational redesign.

Responsibilities:

• Leads operational validation of enterprise value creation opportunities identified by the PI Resource Optimization Operations.

• Partners with corporate, field, and shared services leaders to evaluate feasibility, implementation complexity, operational risk, and expected impact.

• Applies operational knowledge to challenge assumptions, refine opportunity sizing, and identify practical execution pathways.

• Supports clean-sheet labor and organizational design reviews across corporate and targeted business areas.

• Identifies operational best practices from high-performing functions, facilities, or business units and supports replication across lower-performing areas.

• Assesses current workflows, staffing models, spans and layers, role design, productivity practices, and fixed-cost structures.

• Partners with HR and business leaders on organizational design, redundancy analysis, requisition and backfill reviews, and labor governance processes.

• Develops recommendations that balance financial impact, operational continuity, colleague considerations, and execution feasibility.

• Supports Corporate LMAT governance by preparing operational findings, risks, dependencies, and implementation recommendations.

• Facilitates working sessions with business owners to align on opportunity scope, action plans, timing, ownership, and expected outcomes.

• Supports handoff of approved initiatives to business leaders and monitors early execution progress.

• Builds strong relationships with senior operators, finance leaders, HR partners, and corporate functional leaders.

• Coaches team members on healthcare operations, business-unit dynamics, and practical implementation considerations.

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Finance, Business, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or related field

• 7+ years of experience in analytics, finance, performance improvement, healthcare operations, consulting, labor management, or enterprise transformation

• Experience using large datasets to identify financial or operational improvement opportunities

• Experience with benchmarking, productivity analysis, cost analysis, financial modeling, or operational performance tools

• Experience preparing executive-level insights, dashboards, or analytical recommendations

• Healthcare operations or health system experience

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Master's degree in Business, Analytics, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, Data Science, or related field – Preferred

• Experience with AI-enabled analytics, fixed-cost tools, margin insight tools, StrategyHub, or similar enterprise platforms

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare (Corporate) , based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities , every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program , where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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